Cranberry & Apple Spice Cake

I am updating one of my favourite fruit cakes. I originally published it in 2008 and I make it regularly. It is the cake my dad always requests and it never lets me down.

It is usually quite a dark, spicy cake becuase of the treacle, but I decided to make a few changes and have come out with this much blonder cake. I have to say I like them both. You can't beat a slice of it warm and slathered with butter. Mmmmmmmm.

1. Heat the oven to 180 c/ fan 160 f/ gas 4. Line a 8 inch round cake tin with greaseproof paper or a greaseproof liner.2. Beat together the butter, sugar, maple syrup, eggs, flour, baking powder and spices until the mixture is pale and thick. I pop my mixture into a food processor. 3. Fold in the fruit and spoon the batter into the cake tin. Bake for around bake for 1 hour and 10 to 15 minutes until the cake is golden brown. Do the skewer test. If it comes out clean it is ready.4. Leave to cool slightly in the tin and then move onto a wire rack to continue cooling.

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WHY is it when it's most inappropriate that the mad urges for baking come??? I deliberately haven't bought flour - we're on moving rations, which mean things we can eat without leftovers -- so no baking, no cooking much but pasta and veg and chili and rice so we can get the kitchen cleaned out and the rest of the foods packed up...

This cake is the FIRST THING I am going to make in the new place. YUM. I like that new blonde look.

Well you are right C, that is a typo, it should read 1½ cups of flour, but funnily enough I have been baking this cake according to my typo for the last three years and it is perfect. So I am going to change the grams to 320g. Well spotted! I am usually so careful and don't make stupid mistakes like that.

Wish I could get Cooper to eat eggs Johanna, he flat out refuses them :)

Actually, chunks of apple would be good in it as an addition Elizabeth :)

Ooh I'm glad you've made it lighter, I never buy treacle for some unknown reason but have lots of lovely maple syrup so will be perfect! Am a sucker for fruit cake, even more so with cranberries in, looks delicious!

It sounds a delicious cake and just in time for the apple season too. And I've just bought a packet of cranberries and I'm thinking I could use some date syrup in it instead of the maple. Your cakes always look so good.

I love reading comments, so thank you for taking the time to leave one. Unfortunately, I'm bombarded with spam, so I've turned on comment moderation. I'll publish your comments as soon as I can and respond to them. Don't panic, they will disappear when you hit publish. Jac x